Please add a master volume setting to the permanent rooms. I use it to play background music and battle music during table top gaming and by default most videos are so loud you have to set them to 1 or 2 PIXELS of volume or they are too loud. If I could set the master room volume to 50% threshold to start, people wouldn’t be forced to have their ears blown out or struggle to lower the volume enough to hear the players voices over the music.
I too like the idea of a master volume control, separate from the individual users volume controls.
My use case is slightly different from yours, but I think the effect is the same.
My friends and I chat (and play chess) whilst listening to music together, and there are certain moments at which it would be nice to be able to temporarily raise the volume for everyone.
This implies that everyone should set an individual maximum volume which the master control cannot exceed (say 70% for a specific user). When the Master is at 100%, it means 75% for them. Individual users would be able to choose how much they want their heads blasted, when the drop comes.
But then for normal listening, the master could be at say 50%, which would be mapped proportionally to what each user declared as their maximum (35% for our example user).
Final thought: In keeping with the democratic spirit of W2G, everyone should have access to the Master control as well.
Thanks for your input… Volume is a tricky thing because there are so many volume settings in line with each other “Video Volume > System Volume > Speaker Volume” Some users are on headsets others use speakers. Some might have a baby sleeping next door 
Setting a volume remotely that works for everyone will be hardly possible. What might make sense though is some kind of automatic audio normalization that levels out the volume differences of the videos. But i will have to check whats technically possible there.
Not sure if necros are a nono on this forum, just wanted to add a layer of feedback.
Your reasoning for that usually not being a good feature is valid in most cases. But in my case I’m running a coordinated production where we’re checking our devices to be at a setting a standard volume for everyone before we start. It’s a controlled environment where we have already taken care of confounding variables.
So in cases like those, it would be great advanced feature for me to be able to control as the director when the music swells or gets quieter for my cast.
If the worry is that people will abuse it to blow people’s ears out, you could make it so every user has to opt in to have their volume controlled.
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Thanks for your feedback. May I ask what kind of production you running so that I can understand this use case better?
Yeah, I’m recording an audio drama and the music is going to be inserted in post. But I want the actors to have the benefit of the music as they record so they can time their performances with key moments in the music, so we have Watch2gether going and everyone has an earbud in.
It would be nice for me to be able to make universal adjustments if a track (or part of a track) gets too loud or quiet instead of every cast member having to mess with their volume mid-scene.
Especially when there’s a song change it can be pretty chaotic at the moment.
Thanks a lot for sharing this! Interesting to hear what you are using Watch2Gether for. I can imagine adding this to some kind “power user” package but i need to think how much effort it would be to implement.
FWIW, I manage this at the operating system level. On mobile, the phone’s master volume does this and on desktop (linux) I can set the volume of this particular app to whatever i want, which is applied after all of the in-app volume settings. If that’s not possible on OSX or Windows then I agree this is a high value feature.